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TypeBlog Post...organisms have different codon usage biases? The reasons for varied codon preferences among organisms aren...aren’t completely understood, but some possible reasons include: Metabolic pressures - it takes cellular...recognize codons found in highly expressed genes (Emilsson and Kurland, 1990). Controlling gene expression...15678157. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1299251. 3. Emilsson, Valur, and Charles G. Kurland. "Growth rate dependence... 2265611. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC552224. 4. Gustafsson, Claes, Sridhar Govindarajan, and Jeremy Minshull...
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Neuronal labeling with Spaghetti Monster
TypeBlog Post.... 4. Shaner, Nathan C., George H. Patterson, and Michael W. Davidson. "Advances in fluorescent protein... structure resembles images of the deity (see comparison image above). The church of the Flying Spaghetti...schools and was started in 2005 in Kansas by Bobby Henderson, a physics graduate from Oregon State University...New York. pp 719. 3.Rizzo, Mark A., Michael W. Davidson, and David W. Piston. "Fluorescent protein tracking... -
Transferable Skills Guide: External Collaborations
TypeBlog Post...know your collaborators from other institutions personally on conference calls and make sure to maintain...collaborating with people outside my lab’s department, I personally felt that I had to overcome some hesitation to...the hard part: maintaining these relationships. Personally, I find this to be the most challenging and time-intensive...maintain a relationship - many of them involve personal meetings and common interest so naturally this...sharing. LinkedIn or ResearchGate allow you to send personal updates as messages and keep you up-to-date on... -
CRISPR Activation: A Practical Guide
TypeBlog Post...Pinnelli M, Ansari R, Harper S, Jackson DA, McRae R, Pooley R, Wilkinson P, van der Meer D, Dow D, Buser-Doepner...of TSS for best results but up to 400 bp works reasonably well. Best of luck on your experiments! Many...Housden BE, Perrimon N, Collins JJ, Church G (2016) Comparison of Cas9 activators in multiple species. Nat Methods...doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.3871 Gilbert LA, Horlbeck MA, Adamson B, Villalta JE, Chen Y, Whitehead EH, Guimaraes... -
Five Popular Model Organisms
TypeBlog Post...cells are great model organism not only for the reasons above but because they actually share many biological... the study of neurological diseases, such as Parkinson’s disease (PD). PD is primarily characterized by...pancreas and produce different levels of insulin (Hesselson et al., 2009). The worm (Caenorhabditis elegans...nature391.6669 (1998): 806. PubMed PMID: 9486653. Hesselson, Daniel, et al. "Distinct populations of quiescent...From the baker to the bedside: yeast models of Parkinson's disease." Microbial cell 2.8 (2015): 262. PubMed... -
Antibodies 101: Single Chain Fragment Variables (scFvs)
TypeBlog Post...10.3390/antib8020028 Bird R, Hardman K, Jacobson J, Johnson S, Kaufman B, Lee S, Lee T, Pope S, Riordan... (Sandomenico et al., 2020). Figure 1: Comparison between the IgG antibody and scFv. What...doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0189964 Huston JS, Levinson D, Mudgett-Hunter M, Tai MS, Novotny J, Margolies... made by molecular evolution 1 1Edited by I. A. Wilson. Journal of Molecular Biology 275:245–253 . https... -
Viral Vectors 101: AAV Variables That Matter
TypeBlog Post...designing and testing your AAV. Figure 2: Comparison of AAV serotypes 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, and 9 in two ...Taschenberger et al., 2017). Figure 3: Comparison of two astrocyte selective promoters demonstrating...Sortwell, C. E., Hauswirth, W. W., Boye, S. E., & Manfredsson, F. P. (2017). Rationally Engineered AAV Capsids...vector-mediated transduction of the corticospinal tract: Comparison of four promoters. Gene Therapy, 28(1–2), 56–... Jason Nasse... -
Plasmids 101: Dimers and Multimers
TypeBlog Post...PMC2693335. Williams JA, Luke J, Langtry S, Anderson S, Hodgson CP, Carnes AE. Generic plasmid DNA production...and at high copy numbers (Williams, Carnes, and Hodgson, 2009). More research is ongoing to determine plasmid...90057-7. PMID: 2544913. Cook KS, Luo J, Guttman A, Thompson L. Vaccine Plasmid Topology Monitoring by Capillary...90060-6. PMID: 6323019. Williams JA, Carnes AE, Hodgson CP. Plasmid DNA vaccine vector design: impact on... -
An “elegans” Approach to Better CRISPR/Cas9 Editing Efficiency
TypeBlog Post...2013), or rescue of mutant phenotypes (unc-119) (Dickinson et al., 2013). These approaches allowed effective...the development of the self-excising cassette (Dickinson et al., 2015) made this step as simple as heat-shocking...e193–e193 . https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkt805 Dickinson DJ, Pani AM, Heppert JK, Higgins CD, Goldstein...sequences https://doi.org/10.17912/W2237D Farboud B, Severson AF, Meyer BJ (2018) Strategies for Efficient Genome...Krishnamurthy PM, Gneid H, Edraki A, Watts JK, Sontheimer EJ, Mello CC (2018) 5′ Modifications Improve ... -
Fluorescent Proteins 101: Photoactivatable Fluorescent Proteins
TypeBlog Post...many stages of synthesis and degradation. For this reason it is virtually impossible to determine specific...parameter to consider is the contrast ratio- a comparison of PA-FP brightness before and after photoactivation...extraordinary molecular detail. References 1.Patterson, George H., and Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz. ..., Samuel T., Thanu PK Girirajan, and Michael D. Mason. "Ultra-high resolution imaging by fluorescence ...Photoactivatable FPs in Empty Backbones in the Michael Davidson Collection Find Photoactivatable FPs for Single...